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Old Mar 24, 2011 | 07:40 PM
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I've just swapped over, and I can't say I like it

I seem to have lost the little house icon for my Google homepage, and getting to bookmarks now takes TWO clicks instead of one.

Also, when you DO click on the Firefox icon at top left, come down too quickly and you go into a bit about tabs instead of your bookmarks, and you can't go back without closing it and re-clicking

Is it just me, or has anyone else found the same?
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Old Mar 24, 2011 | 07:48 PM
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I'm using 4 and i quite like it. The house icon is on the right, bookmarks only take one click still (providing you have the icon on the toolbar)
are you using a theme?

the only thing i didn't like was the loss of the status bar at the bottom but that was rectified with the add-on status-4-evar
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Old Mar 24, 2011 | 08:39 PM
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Loss of statusbar? Mines there without an addon, you get to it from the view menu right?
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Old Mar 24, 2011 | 08:42 PM
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Just installed it around 30 mins ago, it all looks a bit Chrome`ish to me.
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Old Mar 24, 2011 | 08:45 PM
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eh it's nothing like chrome except for the tabs bein above the addy bar
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While it has been 3 months since i used chrome on my old work laptop, as soon as FF updated to v4 and ran, the first thing i thought was "its all chrome`ish"

So mehh
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Old Mar 24, 2011 | 08:52 PM
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Loss of statusbar? Mines there without an addon, you get to it from the view menu right?
Status bar at the bottom of the screen?
It's not an option on mine. They removed it in 4.
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Old Mar 24, 2011 | 09:09 PM
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OK, I've "found" the house, thanks .

How do I get the bookmarks to be one click? At the mo, I click on the "Firefox" orange tab at the top, them move the cursor to "Bookmarks" which then come up. Or down, rather.

But moving the cursor too quick downwards gets me into tabbed browsing, which I can't get out of without clicking the Firefox icon again, then again for bookmarks
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Old Mar 24, 2011 | 09:13 PM
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Right click on the tool bar and click customize, find the bookmarks button and drag it too the toolbar.
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Old Mar 24, 2011 | 10:09 PM
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faster than chrome ?
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Old Mar 24, 2011 | 11:08 PM
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Originally Posted by mystery_machine
Status bar at the bottom of the screen?
It's not an option on mine. They removed it in 4.
yea, not on mine it isn't Unless its because I have adblock installed which has an icon in the statusbar n it reinstates it? dunno.
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Old Mar 24, 2011 | 11:09 PM
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Originally Posted by NAF
faster than chrome ?
I would say it's on a par now, maybe just a tiny bit slicker.
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Old Mar 24, 2011 | 11:30 PM
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Originally Posted by StickyMicky
While it has been 3 months since i used chrome on my old work laptop, as soon as FF updated to v4 and ran, the first thing i thought was "its all chrome`ish"

So mehh
i meh on your meh
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Old Mar 25, 2011 | 06:46 AM
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I even looked at it for a while trying to work out why they had added a google search bar, so it must look similar.

I tell you what though, i have a GTX275 here and it is one of them ones that likes to "squeal" when it is affected by various FPS.

And the bugger is making a noise right now while on this reply screen
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Old Mar 25, 2011 | 06:47 AM
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Posting this from IE and the GFX card is now silent.
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Old Mar 25, 2011 | 08:18 AM
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Ctrl B is quick shortcut for bookmarks, thats what i use as i hate having tool bars and buttons everywhere, i ran all the Pre-release and RC candidate and did alot of testing, they've used the same backend Tech as chrome using the graphics card to quicken processes. i'm a big FF fan, chrome just isnt stable and does stupid things is testing and debug modes (i work for a software development company)
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Old Mar 25, 2011 | 10:28 AM
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Originally Posted by birchy2010
chrome just isnt stable and does stupid things is testing and debug modes (i work for a software development company)
Doesn't it just. Thank goodness someone else has seen the same things I have. People keep telling me how great it is and I keep telling them it is buggy, but they don't believe me until a page doesn't load properly and then they ask me why? LOL!
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Old Mar 25, 2011 | 08:18 PM
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Originally Posted by StickyMicky
Posting this from IE and the GFX card is now silent.
Turn off the hware acceleration then You don't need it anyway.
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Old Mar 25, 2011 | 09:36 PM
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Firefox is ****e I prefer Netscape navigator
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Old Mar 25, 2011 | 10:10 PM
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haha seriously?? netscape is complete poop!
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Old Mar 25, 2011 | 11:04 PM
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seems to use alot of memory
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Old Mar 25, 2011 | 11:12 PM
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Yup Netscape and I use lycos instead of google
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Old Mar 26, 2011 | 03:01 AM
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Originally Posted by acstua
seems to use alot of memory
I see the complete opposite its using less RAM and the RAM leaks 3.6 suffered from has gone as well. I usually have 3-4 tabs open at once.
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